The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is the International independent organization created in 1999 to promote, coordinate and monitor the fight against doping in sport in all its forms.

WADA coordinated the development, and subsequent evolution, of the World Anti-Doping Code (Code). WADA is engaged in many key activities, including scientific and social science research, education, athlete outreach, anti-doping capacity building, enforcement and monitoring Code implementation. WADA is not a testing agency.

By applying for and obtaining a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) from your IF (for international level athletes) or NADO (for national level athletes), you may be allowed to take certain prohibited medication for specific conditions.

If you are identified in a Registered Testing Pool (RTP), you must provide current and accurate whereabouts information, including your:

Home Address

training schedule and venues

regular personal activities such as work or school

Additionally, you have to specify a location and a 60-minute window each day where you can be sought for testing. Should you not be present at the specified location during the hour this could be declared a missed test. Even if you are not included in an RTP you could be requested to provide similar whereabouts information.

If you compete at the international, regional and/or national level, you can have your urine and/or blood tested anytime, anywhere by your IF, NADO or a Major Event Organizing Committee. Specially trained and accredited doping control personnel carry out all tests.

Testing can be conducte in-competiton and out-of-competition.

But why me?

In-competition you can be chosen by random selection, finishing position or by being targeted for a particular reason.

Out-of-competition you may be tested anytime, anywhere and with no advance notice.

If you are a minor or an athlete with a specific disability, you may require slight modifications to the sample collection procedure. You can discuss these modifications with the Doping Control Officer at the time of testing.

Sanctions for violating anti-doping regulations may range from a reprimand to a lifetime ban. The period of ineligibility may vary depending on the type of anti-doping violation, the circumstances of an individual case, the substance, and the possible repetition of an anti-doping rule violation.

As an athlete, you have the right to request a B sample analysis. You are entitles to a fair hearing and to appeal any decision regarding a positive test or sanction imposed on you following an anti-doping rule violation.